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guardians_song) wrote2013-03-02 07:03 pm
guardians_song) wrote2013-03-02 07:03 pm
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Complaint about a snark on the Anita Blake Amazon forums:
""Anyway, his ardeur power causes people to love him."
Can someone PLEASE notify vampire authors that "being lovable" is possibly the WORST vampire power EVER? "
...Well, no, actually, "being lovable" is one of the most POWERFUL vampire powers EVER. Particularly if the vampire has absolutely no scruples or conscience about using it.
If it makes people genuinely fall head over heels for the vampire, said vampire can start its very own cult - amongst other things. EVERYTHING in a personality cult is geared towards making the people feel love (and fear) for the Dear Leader. If the vampire just has to wave its power around? Ba-bing, no propaganda needed - just 'force of personality'.
If the vampire uses it on unstable and/or weak-willed people? Then the vampire has a force of genuine yanderes at its disposal. Even better. Now it can run terrorism against anyone who opposes it through the "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?!" method, and just claim that its more 'fanatical' followers did it without its approval. It's always worked for monarchs who had only mundane bonds of fealty on their side. It would sure as blazes work for a vampire with supernatural love-compulsions working on its victims' minds.
For ****'s sake, please explain to me why being a walking love-potion-dispenser wouldn't be one of the most terrifying powers a psychopathic manipulator could have. Because, as it is, I'm just thinking rather snide things about Darker And Edgier fetishization of vampires causing people to miss the ragingly obvious.
Can someone PLEASE notify vampire authors that "being lovable" is possibly the WORST vampire power EVER? "
...Well, no, actually, "being lovable" is one of the most POWERFUL vampire powers EVER. Particularly if the vampire has absolutely no scruples or conscience about using it.
If it makes people genuinely fall head over heels for the vampire, said vampire can start its very own cult - amongst other things. EVERYTHING in a personality cult is geared towards making the people feel love (and fear) for the Dear Leader. If the vampire just has to wave its power around? Ba-bing, no propaganda needed - just 'force of personality'.
If the vampire uses it on unstable and/or weak-willed people? Then the vampire has a force of genuine yanderes at its disposal. Even better. Now it can run terrorism against anyone who opposes it through the "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?!" method, and just claim that its more 'fanatical' followers did it without its approval. It's always worked for monarchs who had only mundane bonds of fealty on their side. It would sure as blazes work for a vampire with supernatural love-compulsions working on its victims' minds.
For ****'s sake, please explain to me why being a walking love-potion-dispenser wouldn't be one of the most terrifying powers a psychopathic manipulator could have. Because, as it is, I'm just thinking rather snide things about Darker And Edgier fetishization of vampires causing people to miss the ragingly obvious.